Let's play "substitute words in news" - substitute "OBAMA" and "healthcare" for "Vatican"

My head is spinning from thinking I was reading about the President's offering "Come, let us reason together" a la LBJ to *traditionalists* over healthcare coverage of contraception. How does it feel, O Ratz, to reach out and reach out and be slammed and slammed?!1

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/vatican-offers-traditionalists-reconcile-16565169

[font size=5]Vatican Offers Traditionalists Way to Reconcile[/font]

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
VATICAN CITY June 14, 2012

.... The Vatican said Thursday it had proposed making the Society of St. Pius X a "[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]personal prelature" — akin to a diocese without borders[/FONT] — during a meeting Wednesday with the society's superior.

The superior, Bishop Bernard Fellay, promised to respond within a "reasonable" amount of time to the proposal and the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Vatican's outstanding demands that the group accept a set of core doctrinal points[/FONT] to come into full communion with Rome, the Vatican said in a statement.

The society, founded in 1969 by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, split from Rome over its [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]opposition to the liberalizing reforms[/FONT] of the Second Vatican Council, which among other things introduced Mass in the vernacular and revolutionized the church's relations with Jews. In 1988, the Vatican excommunicated Lefebvre and four of his bishops after he consecrated them without papal consent. ....

The society's members contend that Vatican II's [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]reforms ruined the church and are responsible for a "crisis" of faith[/FONT] in the world today; they consider themselves the true upholders of Catholic tradition. As it is, many bishops have resisted the pope's 2007 call to revive the traditionalists' Latin Mass, contending it's a rollback on Vatican II. ....

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